Dear Tom,
In message 20121203145414.GE15777@bill-the-cat you wrote:
- The change makes the code less readable. Reading "gd->arch." instead of plain "gd->" is no improvements, but rather vice versa. If we really go this way, this should be improved.
Yes it would be nice. Are you suggesting some sort of macro, or something else?
Wolfgang? "global data, architecture specific goo, ..." reads fine and helpful to me, honestly.
Well, maybe, at first glance. But when you read (and write) it again and again and again it quickly becomes a PITA. It's similar to a nested pull-down menu - when you use it the first time, it's nice that you don't have to remember the exact command name and/or options to perform operation foo - but when you find yourself doing this many times a day, you will highly prefer to type a short command on the command line over having to pull down three or four nested levels in some pull-down menu.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk